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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Brian Baumgartner, you know him Kevin from the Office. He says the Office is now bigger than it ever was. That led to the launch of his podcast on oral History of the Office. Ed Helms said that podcast gave us a chance to talk about the show itself, which was a vibrant part of our lives for almost ten years.
In the aftermath of the show, we were all excited and stunned and surprised by how the show lived on after it ended. I really loved the opportunity to go in a safe space with Brian and think about it and talk about it. These days, Brian hosts Off the Beat, a weekly conversation with TV’s favorite actors. Ed Helms did a podcast called Snaffoo, which got into the story of a nineteen eighty three military exercise of a lot of people claim was the closest we ever came to nuclear at confrontation. Thanks for the laughs on a Sunday Sehn ed Helms paid the bills for many years doing voice acting.
He said, I was doing stand up in the trenches making five dollars per spot, but I was actually making more as a commercial voiceover guy, recording multiple sessions a week for years. That really credit that experience for giving me a weird comfort level with my time in a booth doing the podcast. He dropped the g there, John Yeah, the Queen’s coming out doing of a podcast. Brian said, what I love and what I’m trying to capture is a conversation between two people that can’t happen when a member of the press, the Queens came out there again, we can’t keep it in today you’re getting Queen’s accent, Johnny Mack. On This Sunday, Brian told a story about Nick Offerman.
He said, as many of you know, Nick Offerman works well with wood. Brian said he had the most beautiful Chinese elm tree in his yard. One day it unexpectedly fell. Brian said that the tree was so meaningful to me and my children. I have a connection with my child to this tree.
So Nick came, got the tree trunk, and right before he left, in his very nick way, he goes, it’ll be about five or six years before it’s ready. It’s been about five years and it’s on my to do list, and I keep thinking I should ask him. I want Nick Kaferman’s making. Barry is back tonight. One of the stars of Barry is, of course, Macpacker Henry Winkler.
Henry said, my growing to a more mature self allowed me to become Gene. I wouldn’t have done him earlier in my career. I wouldn’t be able to taste the juicy to sales. I’m grateful was an acting gift given to me. I was twenty seven when I was The Fawns and Happy Days.
I was seventy two when I got Jeane. What a journey. I’ll miss him, but it’s the right time to end the series. Honestly, Barry can’t get away with much more. As an actor.
You try to find a colonel of humanity and a character, no matter how much of an a hole he or she is. Every great piece of literature character is in you already. That’s why they last five hundred years. That’s why Shakespeare’s been around forever. Forget about poetry.
Those characters have been sitting around your table when you grow up. You know them in your village, every one of them. That’s a sign of great characters and the gift of being able to play one like Jean. I had the same feeling when I finished ten Years of Happy Days. I was sitting in my office at Paramount.
I had a production company. I didn’t know what to do with myself. Plan A was to live it to the nth degree, and my brain hurt because I didn’t know. I had no plan. What do I do?
What do I pick? Will it be as meaningful as the character I just played. I’m having that same feeling now with Barry, but with less pain because I’m a little older now. Well, every do anything is impactful? Again?
Is this show? What I’ve learned is you don’t know? Forbes sucked to Sam Morrell and said, hey, when you riff with audience members during your show, you usually start with what someone’s drinking. Sam said, it’s their night off, they’re loose. What they’re drinking tells you about the person.
If someone’s having a fruity drink, I’m assuming it’s been an easier day. If someone’s drinking a Long Island nice tea, I’m like, what are you running from? Then Sam usually buys them a drink after roasting them. Sam said, that’s my way of saying thanks for playing along. They’re drinking a really bad beer.
I’m like, get them a real beer. Sometimes they’ll want me to do a shot with them and they’ll ask for kamikaze. I don’t want to do something sugary. If I’m doing a shot, I want to feel it. Let’s take a look at what’s happening at the various comedy festivals today.
Let’s start with Nashville, which I bookmarked. Good Job John five o’clock, Eddie B. Teacher’s Only Comedy Tour five thirty, Jeames Gregory eight thirty, Josh Wolf’s Extravaganza Bonanza. That’s it, m all right? If you and I are there in Nashville, we’re hanging and we’ll go see Josh Wolf at eight thirty, and then we’ll go hang some more.
Moon Tower, What you got? One show only, Samantha B Seven o’clock. If we were in Austin, guess we’re doing and that Melbourne? What do you got? The Age reviewed to Claire Hooper’s Sweet Charity and said when soft plastic recycling systems collapse, how many folks breathe a sigh of relief?
Picking up the scabs of parental and existential anxiety? She asked, if it’s really gonna make you feel better if you graciously pay for forty five dollars of someone else’s chicken nuggets while stuck in a drive through que when all you want is a coffee. Is generosity to humanity and our future. Foolish sounds like a slog, but the chuckles keep coming, and Hooper leaves us with hope three and a half stars. The Age reviewed Lizzie.
Who’s woo who? She’s at Melbourne town Hall? And they said, Lizzie who’s on the cusp of turning forty and she’s feeling fine. Her set is decorated with bright flowers, her outlook of sunny. She likes who she is.
Let’s take a listen. A few years ago, I found out that I was a POC. Yeah, that’s a person of color. Before that, I was just the Asian chick. And before that, people didn’t see color because HR said we didn’t legally have to.
I’m a POC. Yeah. I feel like I’ve joined the FBI or something like I’ve watched a recruitment video online. Do you have at least one parent with colored skin? Will your childhood friends surprised by the smells coming from your home kitchen?
Tell me, are you interested in taking advantage of white guilt? They gave her three stars. How about Anthony Locasio? So the headline I saw from NEOs Cosmos was the Greek Italian comedian storming the nation. I was like, who what?
And then I found out, Oh, in this case, the nation is Australia. Anthony says. The idea that jokes and stories I wrote in my boxer shorts of My Kitchen Counter and Roseberry gets to be heard in multiple cities by hundreds of relative strangers is something that will never not be cool. In my new show, I tell a collection of stories about some of the most morally questionable things I’ve done in my life and juxtaposed that with material about my current loving relationship to raise the question of whether our sins and transgressions preclude us from deserving of He added, I’m currently so cold in Melbourne. I want to vomit, and I’m gonna have to go shopping to rectify it or I won’t survive until May.
Is interesting. Comedy started when he saw Eddie Murphy raw at eleven years old. His other inspirations include American comedians Dave’s Chappelle, Bill Burr, Louis C.K. And Australians Joevatti he’s real good and Carl Baron. Don’t know Carl, but it was George Carlin that made him want to try comedy, said.
The way Carlin was able to infuse social and political commentary into his jokes or vice versa, depending on your perspective, was simply revolutionary. Let’s take a clip. I had to make some edits here. There’s a bunch of f bombs, but you’ll get the gist. But other than speaking the language, is the only element of my cultural background that existed in my life when I was a kid was the big Sunday lunches.
The big rule of thumb in ethnic households, I think is the smaller, the more trivial, the celebration, the bigger than lunch. We have to Christmas, big Asta bigger. One of my cousins Wants cracked the top two hundred and fifty globally ranked FIFA players. We called the neighbors for lunch. It’s the best.
It’s heaven for me. It’s every part of the kitchen is covered by every yellow food you’ve ever seen in your life, waiting to be pillaged by conveyor belts of fat wogs queuing up with paper plates. They’ve got to be paper plates, guys, and not ethnic people. They’ve got to be paper plates because these people are just salivating and sweating so much. Paper plates are the only things enough grip for these to hang onto.
What them making. It’s amazing, it’s it was the time of my life. But I never realized how special, how unique these lunches were to my culture until the first time I ate at my white friend’s house. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.
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